Follow-up Comment #40, sr #106304 (project administration):
- looked like the standard sort of savannah spam to me. maybe we've been
targeted by only one spam farm so far.
- i like the idea of hold-for-moderation. no clue how it can be implemented
in savane, though.
- i don't see a voting
Follow-up Comment #38, sr #106304 (project administration):
We just got a great deal of spam. One of the spammers 1) found he needed to
type 451 and 2) was greedy enough to spam a lot of items at once.
I just changed the question, let's see if this works.
At my day job, I recently implemented
Follow-up Comment #39, sr #106304 (project administration):
I haven't run across the new spam yet. Have we attracted more creative
spammers or are they still doing many lines of URL GarbageGarbageGarbage?
More generally, how difficult would it be to implement a
hold-for-moderation mechanism?
Follow-up Comment #37, sr #106304 (project administration):
Almost no spam is reported these days, so I guess the current simple measures
are effective.
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Follow-up Comment #36, sr #106304 (project administration):
At least from a cursory glance at the spam others have mentioned here, it
looks like most of the spam follows the same format.
Perhaps some means of blocking (or holding for moderation?) comments that
contain many lines that begin with
Follow-up Comment #36, sr #106304 (project administration):
Another thing that I wonder about is running some kind of
simple-minded spamassassin-like test on comments before they
are posted. The spam that gets posted is completely obvious
and I'd expect any program would detect it. Do any
Follow-up Comment #37, sr #106304 (project administration):
I wonder if http://blogspam.net/code/ could be usefully adapted for savannah.
It's for blogs instead of hosting services, but ...
(It would be astonishing to me if no other hosting site -- sourceforge,
berlios, etc. -- had done
Follow-up Comment #35, sr #106304 (project administration):
How sad.
We can't defeat the manual setup, but I agree a couple more questions
couldn't hurt. A couple more ideas from the overview page:
At what institution did Richard Stallman start his career? (MIT)
What is GNU's graphical desktop
Follow-up Comment #34, sr #106304 (project administration):
From what I remember it was registered 12th january, so it did pass the
TextCHA.
My understanding of the stats is that spammers combine initial manual setup
with later automated spamming. In this case I presume the spammer's cronjob
Follow-up Comment #32, sr #106304 (project administration):
So at least one spammer took at look at the GNU manifesto publication date
(which is the current TextCHA question).
I need to add more questions, at once - any suggestions? :)
Follow-up Comment #33, sr #106304 (project administration):
Could it be the case that the spammer already existed in the system before
the textcha?
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Follow-up Comment #30, sr #106304 (project administration):
Well I put the TextCHA 9 days ago and the spamlist.php stayed empty since
then - so you should have an idea on whether it works now :)
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Follow-up Comment #31, sr #106304 (project administration):
Re: Well I put the TextCHA 9 days ago and the spamlist.php stayed empty
since then - so you should have an idea on whether it works now :)
These got through it since then:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?4755
But I am sure it is
Follow-up Comment #27, sr #106304 (project administration):
I added a basic TextCHA in the registration page.
Thank you very much. It'll be interesting to see how much it helps.
Meanwhile, do you by any chance know about
https://savannah.gnu.org/siteadmin/spamlist.php
I did, but deleting
Follow-up Comment #28, sr #106304 (project administration):
I figured the spamlist.php url wasn't available to normal mortals. But since
I submitted this bug in the first place *and* that was offered as an option I
felt justified in saying that it didn't work for me.
Follow-up Comment #29, sr #106304 (project administration):
Because of the spam problems I've had to add the savannah sender as a always
moderated address to my project mailing lists; for every bug, etc. email that
is generated I have to go approve it in case it's spam.
Frustrating. I hope the
Follow-up Comment #26, sr #106304 (project administration):
Well that's an administrator page.
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Follow-up Comment #23, sr #106304 (project administration):
Meanwhile, do you by any chance know about
https://savannah.gnu.org/siteadmin/spamlist.php ?
Reported spammers can be banned in a single click.
It could be improved with a hide all posts from this spammer.
Do you get only registered
Follow-up Comment #24, sr #106304 (project administration):
I added a basic TextCHA in the registration page.
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Follow-up Comment #25, sr #106304 (project administration):
Meanwhile, do you by any chance know about
https://savannah.gnu.org/siteadmin/spamlist.php ?
Reported spammers can be banned in a single click.
I did not know about that page but that page gives me a permission denied
error.
Follow-up Comment #21, sr #106304 (project administration):
After 8 months...
Apparently this is slightly decreasing.
-- User was not logged and check_value is wrong
255478
-- Idem, and in addition the posted text contains an HTTP link
245328
-- Validated post (validated captcha or
Follow-up Comment #20, sr #106304 (project administration):
http://hotblondesex.pornlivenews.comhot blonde sex
http://bignaturalboobs.pornlivenews.com big natural boobs
http://freeamateursexmovies.pornlivenews.comfree amateur sex movies
http://swingersexvideos.pornlivenews.com
Follow-up Comment #18, sr #106304 (project administration):
a
href=http://faves.com/Out.ashx?u=//dating365.co.cc/dating+a+taurus+mandating
a taurus man/a
We cannot guarantee that these keywords will improve your campaign
performance. We reserve the right to disapprove any keywords you add.
a
Follow-up Comment #17, sr #106304 (project administration):
Gift Baskets http://giftbasketsblog.net/
Flowers http://flowersdictionary.net/
Spring Flowers http://springflowerslist.net/
Soft Toys http://kidssofttoys.net/
Acne Treatment http://onmytod.net/
Alternative Medicine
Follow-up Comment #15, sr #106304 (project administration):
Here's an extremely clever spam that showed up in my bug #17873 a day or two
ago: it takes some sentences from OTHER COMMENTS and adds the spam bit in the
middle, so the result is somewhat relevant to the bug in question, plus spam.
It
Follow-up Comment #14, sr #106304 (project administration):
Best sites from google.de :
1)
http://www.google.de/notebook/public/04608191802079853396/BDShxQwoQqI2u9aMj
2)
http://www.google.de/notebook/public/14811194029080121230/BDShxQwoQ-K6u9aMj
3)
Follow-up Comment #13, sr #106304 (project administration):
TextChas sounds like something to try out:
http://moinmo.in/HelpOnTextChas
Examples:
Since you are not logged in, please enter the last name (family name) of
the founder of the GNU project (http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html):
Follow-up Comment #11, sr #106304 (project administration):
http://searchdvdmovies.com/03/21/highlander-ii-the-quickening/
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Follow-up Comment #12, sr #106304 (project administration):
It seems poetic to me that this bug reporting a problem with bug spam is also
getting bug spam. :-)
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Follow-up Comment #10, sr #106304 (project administration):
We got a series of '//Not Viagra' spam. The logs show that this was done over
~15mn with ~2msg/min. This means filters like MoinMoin's surge protection
won't work in such case. surge protection may still be good to implement, in
Follow-up Comment #9, sr #106304 (project administration):
I added a few tracers in the code and build some stats for the past day. I
trace all new items and items comments.
Total comments received: 1869
Posts that failed the 421 captcha and contain http://: 1808
Validated posts (login or
Follow-up Comment #7, sr #106304 (project administration):
Ditto here; one of my bugs is getting lots of spam, but it's almost all
posted by Anonymous. So, I think the captcha we're using must not be strong
enough??
See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?17873
There are some real users posting
Follow-up Comment #8, sr #106304 (project administration):
I agree with Paul, the captcha is only an enter 137 How about implementing
some of the modern day Recaptcha systems?
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Follow-up Comment #3, sr #106304 (project administration):
Dennis,
Maybe this is an opportunity for you to analyse the spam we receive at
Savannah, in preparation of the anti-spam coding tasks?
Tony, can you give more details about the spam you received (URLs,
patterns...) ?
Bob, for your
Follow-up Comment #4, sr #106304 (project administration):
Sure I'd love to get started on this assignment, As Sylvain said it would be
great to get some more details first.
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Follow-up Comment #5, sr #106304 (project administration):
Bob, for your initial question, maybe see
https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/SavaneTasks
The SavaneTasks page describes a process to clean spam through direct SQL
access. I am happy to do this. Where can I log in to be able to run
Follow-up Comment #6, sr #106304 (project administration):
Sylvain,
There are several (12) spam comments at:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?16179
And a spam bug report at:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?22897
Maybe others, I didn't keep a log.
Follow-up Comment #2, sr #106304 (project administration):
I continue to receive comment spam in GNU grep's bug tracking from registered
users. This is becoming increasing annoying not only for the maintainer, but
for all members of bug-grep list that gets notifications of changes to the bug
Follow-up Comment #1, sr #106304 (project administration):
I second this request. I've been getting a lot of spam recently on GNU grep
project. We have the bug comments connected to the mailing list, resulting in
mailing list spam as well.
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